Which is called the Victorian Age______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

   A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
   B. sound as a means to express meaning
   C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
   D. all of the above

2. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

   A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
   B. sound as a means to express meaning
   C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
   D. all of the above

3. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?

   A. Victorian
   B. Elizabethan
   C. Romantic
   D. None of these

4. Which one of Gaskell’s novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?

   A. Cranford
   B. North and South
   C. Ruth
   D. Mary Barton

5. In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success_______________?

   A. Epic Poetry
   B. Lyric Poetry
   C. The Essay
   D. The Novel

6. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?

   A. Christina Rossetti
   B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
   C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
   D. Ted Hughes

7. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?

   A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
   B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
   C. raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication
   D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

8. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?

   A. the India Mutiny in 1857
   B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
   C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
   D. all of the above

9. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?

   A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
   B. George Bernard Shaw
   C. Robert Corrigan
   D. all but C

10. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet ?

    A. John Milton
    B. Alfred Tennyson
    C. Allen Ginsberg
    D. Amy Lowell